Though Stephenie had been an avid reader all her life, she says she was never a writer before 'Twilight.' That's why I started writing it down - not because I thought this would be a great story for a novel.' 'The dream was just something I was so interested in, and it was so different from what my everyday was at the time,' she says. I'd barely spoken to him because I had all these things going on in my head, and I wasn't telling him about this weird vampire obsession because I knew he'd freak out and think I'd lost my mind,' she says.Īt first, Stephenie was documenting her dream only to make sure she would remember it, she says. The boy was a vampire, which is so bizarre that I'd be dreaming about vampires, and he was trying to explain to her how much he cared about her and yet at the same time how much he wanted to kill her. Though she'd been married for 15 years, Stephenie says she didn't tell her husband at first about her new passion. I'd been bottling up who I was for so long, I needed an expression.' I really had gotten into that zombie mom way of doing things where I wasn't Stephenie anymore,' she says. 'It really captured my imagination.' That dream became Chapter 13 of 'Twilight.'īefore the night of the dream, Stephenie says she had lost herself a little in the work of motherhood.

The boy was a vampire, which is so bizarre that I'd be dreaming about vampires, and he was trying to explain to her how much he cared about her and yet at the same time how much he wanted to kill her,' Stephenie says. 'It was two people in kind of a little circular meadow with really bright sunlight, and one of them was a beautiful, sparkly boy and one was just a girl who was human and normal, and they were having this conversation. Once a stay-at-home mom, Stephenie says the idea for 'Twilight' came to her in a dream. The story, a love triangle between a vampire, a human and a werewolf, has ignited an international frenzy, and the woman behind it all is 35-year-old author Stephenie Meyer. The books have spent 143 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, and the first movie in 'The Twilight Saga' grossed $380 million at the box office.

( ) - When the first book of the 'Twilight' series was released in October 2005, no one could have guessed the phenomenon it would become.įour years later, 70 million copies have been sold worldwide.

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